Tweets of the Week: Advertising as Prostitution

People have some cutting remarks about advertising and Cannes, Klout innuendo and more in this week’s top industry tweets.

Industry analogy time
@ddbco, DDB&Co. Istanbul, agency

Klout innuendo
@rick_now, Rick Liebling, creative culturalist, Y&R

Metrics mumbojumbo
@lenkendall, Len Kendall,  Digital Director, GolinHarris

Cannes tweeting
@ischafer, Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus

Selling out
@reiinamoto, Rei Inamoto, chief creative officer, AKQA

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